notes and quotes from things I read
Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
Writing advice: finish things
What Artists Can Learn from Aladdin's Incredible Color
No one knows what universities are for
How to escape Honda’s privacy hell
Generative Forgery - Fake artworks from artists sold on Etsy
DMT ameliorates Alzheimer’s disease by restoring neuronal Sigma-1 receptor-mediated endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria crosstalk
cool
Breaking the jobs / health insurance link
Whole bunch fermentation in winemaking
Shellac - Wikipedia
g9: Automatically Interative Graphics
Dev notes from XKCD Machine
A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers
I often don't enjoy these scroll-driven animated articles but this was very well made
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership
Coworking space economics
TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression
Keep taking shots
from the title I had thought it was about drinking
Because no one cares about your misses, they're busy with their own stuff.
Because taking shots is fun.
Because each shot makes the next shot a little easier.
Why Are Most Humans Right-Handed? The Modified Fighting Hypothesis
Impact of ocean heat waves on sealife
Happiness is not real
Writing to think
Read Something Wonderful
From a thread of things similar to StumbleUpon.
Apparently browser buddy extension does something similar
Manufacturing Bliss
mapscii - the whole world in your console
Fan-edit of Matrix 2 & 3 into a single 90minute movie
Advice to young people, or lies I tell myself
Smell is really important for social communication
C isn't a hangover, Rust isn't a hangover cure
long read, good tldr.
Creative AI Generated QR Codes with Stable Diffusion & ControlNet
Related, spiral images tutorial
Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Human or Bot?
Most People
Don't base work or decisions or worries on what "most people" think
How to Keep House While Drowning
Euphony definition
a harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound
Diego & Caio
Amazing portfolio of creative marketing work
Schlagetown
I love the "want to do" sections, great way/place to list ideas!
Also the antilibrary - reviews for books he's not yet read.
Permanent Stranger - The Aftermath of Freedom
How to build and maintain communities
The Cult of Genius
Seasonal instability made people less nomadic
Theory that less stable seasons led to people developing agriculture
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Towards a behavioral paradigm for web UIs - Part 1 - YouTube
The World According to Jordan Castro
The whole thing looks like it was shot on a first-gen iPad
savage
The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should
from the book about it
How Piccalilli are approaching theming with modern CSS
Ex-technology companies. | Irrational Exuberance
You Learn - Jorge Luis Borges
Weird-looking tentacle grabbing machine
Dogme 95 - Wikipedia
In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of
Nice clothes are good, actually
LLM for automating phone calls
feels like another of these ones with a lot of possible good uses and a lot of possible abuse
If people want 'community' so much, why aren't we creating it?
Building files-to-prompt entirely using Claude 3 Opus
What I think about when I edit - Eva Parish
Rain - Francis Ponge
From the gutter it flows with the restraint of a shallow creek until it tumbles out into a perfectly vertical net, rather imperfectly braided, all the way to the ground where it breaks and sparkles into brilliant needles.
Code Search is Hard
Suppressing bad thoughts is good for you
Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage | The New Yorker
interesting note on the demand for less engaging TV shows, so people can scroll while watching them.
‘AI Instagram Influencers’ Are Deepfaking Their Faces Onto Real Women’s Bodies
The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
a longer write up on teeth and mouths and the mouth-bacteria-replacement thing
Spanner - Google's Globally Distributed Database
Apparently a common thing that ex-googler's miss
Introducing Climate Hawks
a term for people who care about climate change and clean energy, but aren't "environmentalists"
Human brain development timeline - Wikipedia
You can't tell people anything
What AI Art Will Never Understand About Wes Anderson
from about a year ago
The American Lobster
was wondering if they have predators (it's mostly humans).
Disabling tap-and-drag gesture in Gnome
finally! so many accidentally-moved files and folders
Egyptian Empire - The Horn Track, on whosampled
World models
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events
Measuring the Doughnut: A good life for all is possible within planetary boundaries
It is theoretically possible to sustain 10.4bn people within planetary boundaries
Best Korean Sunscreens
Alts and Automediality: Compartmentalising the Self through Multiple Social Media Profiles
101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago
Don't agree with all of them, but plenty of good advice in there.
Training great LLMs in the wilderness as a startup
Geothermal in the U.S.
Certainty
be less certain about things, or at least consider the possibility of being wrong
Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
Explore Historic Japanese Textbooks Online
Climate Solutions 101 | Project Drawdown
Can I just throw these through my attic, or do I need the traps?
suggestions on placing rodent baits.
..we have this wall that we call the mouse cemetery
The Fifty-Fifty Split and Overflow
Academish Voice
What I learned as a hired consultant for autodidact physicists
Asteroid City meaning
not everything can be explained or contained
What should I do with my life?
Improving tomato shelf-life with CRISPR
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events
Plastics in arterial plaque cause large increase in cardiovascular issues
Tracking SQLite table history using a JSON audit log | Simon Willison’s TILs
Regedit to make Windows load large folders faster
Running self-hosted QuickJS in a browser
Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing
Guess the generated image
GGUF, the long way around
Evidence of covid causing drops in IQ
DRY Switching with CSS Variables
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
Piano on Paper
Make Sunsets, Balloon Launch
infinite backrooms
Friendship orientation
Airline List
Another levelsio project
Is there a recent crisis in men?
Who was Mistadobalina, Mista Bob Dobalina, anyway?
a department store manager from San Antonio.
the phrase "the internal rhythm of the phrase" has quite a nice rhythm to it.